Reposted by StephanieLaura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 2hEritrea has open ended conscription for all citizens aged 18-40. Attempts to evade (like leaving the country) are severely punished. That's why most asylum applications are granted. 010045
Reposted by StephanieJenny TP @jennytpgrows.bsky.social · 2hwww.eventbrite.co.uk/o/tamar-grow... A couple of places left on our dry-stone walling course this weekend. Bag a place while you can! #TamarValley #Cornwall #Devon #WestDevon #Tavistock #Callington #RuralCraftseventbrite.co.ukTamar Grow Local CICTamar Grow Local CIC 034
Reposted by StephanieStephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 18hI wrote a piece for the @southwarkcathedral.bsky.social diocesan newspaper about the research I'm working on with @rosemariemallett.bsky.social for #BlackHistoryMonth @blackhistorymonth.org.uk #Croydon #C18th #C19th 🗃✝️⚓️ 174
Reposted by StephanieJo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 23hNot sure how it has taken me this long to realise the pleasing circularity that Canary Wharf is now the heart of the Isle of Dogs and is named after the Canary Islands, whose name derives from the Latin for Isles of Dogs. 410515
Reposted by StephaniePete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 15hWhen you consider the scale of the economics and social impact of this, it’s genuine serious Hard Journalism being done here. 313140
Reposted by StephanieDr Naomi Paxton @naomipaxton.bsky.social · 12hThursday 15th October - I'm taking Ada Campe to the @thelondonarchives.bsky.social for a dally in the stacks 😀 She'll be bringing songs, stories, magic, and lots of fun - and the whole event includes two lightning talks and some archive material on display www.thelondonarchives.org/whats-on/arc...thelondonarchives.orgArchives After Hours: Ada Campe Dallies in the Stacks | The London ArchivesAda Campe and The London Archives present an evening of stories, songs, and treasures inspired by London’s music hall and cabaret nightlife. 036
Reposted by StephanieDr Kathryn Rix @kathrynrix.bsky.social · 12hThis was a really uplifting event to attend - great to hear from Mari and all the other speakers about a fascinating and inspiring woman. 042
Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 18hI wrote a piece for the @southwarkcathedral.bsky.social diocesan newspaper about the research I'm working on with @rosemariemallett.bsky.social for #BlackHistoryMonth @blackhistorymonth.org.uk #Croydon #C18th #C19th 🗃✝️⚓️ 174
Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 18hThere's too much text to do alt text but this is the whole issue if it helps pages 10-11 southwark.anglican.org/wp-content/u...southwark.anglican.org 021
Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 19hCroydon enslaver and merchant, (blackmailer and money launderer) James Bourdieu was the 1st to subscribe to the new Lloyds of London in 1771 #C18th #BlackHistoryMonth #Croydon 0138
Reposted by StephanieRosemarie Mallett @rosemariemallett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...theguardian.comManchester-based composer creates requiem to honour enslaved AfricansDavid Önaç uses insurance documents for work funded by Lloyd’s of London after research uncovered its slavery links 043
Reposted by StephanieSamuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 21hMy wife and I, by Mr. Rawlinson’s conduct, to the Jewish Synagogue: where the men and boys in their vayles, and the women behind a lattice out of sight; and some things stand up, which I believe is their Law, in a press to which all coming in do bow. 3606
Reposted by StephanieRichard Dubourg @richarddubourg.bsky.social · 21h@insidecroydon.bsky.social Did you see this? 143
Reposted by StephanieAnil Dash @anildash.com · 13/10/2026You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean. 13365132144
Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026My mother, who has a lifetime award of Attendance Allowance, read out one of the articles from The Times on Sunday night about how terrible it was that some claimants hadn't been reviewed in 16 years, expecting us to agree with her outrage. My sister and I did not, very firmly. 0221
Reposted by StephanieChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Top three articles on the Times website are currently a barrage of hate against funding for disabled people, including an attack on Access to Work *which is money to help disabled people find/stay in paid work* 13329122
Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Why isn't Lily being brought into the running of Lower Loxley in some role? She would actually be good at it #TheArchers 120
Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Freddie seems to have got out of bed on the entitled public school boy side #TheArchers 030
Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I'm not sure though I have found there's a page for an annual visitor permit, which I need to investigate. Croydon council is broke and so grasping onto income like this! 010
Reposted by StephanieDavid Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Happy Indigenous People Day. In 1668 the English invaded St Lucia & St Vincent in the Caribbean & had their arses handed to them so badly by the Kalinago Islanders that they left 1,000 dead English behind & had to agree a treaty giving the Kalinago the right to roam freely on English islands ✊ 15420
Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Here for the least polluting car it's about £35 a year. But a visitor permit for the day is at £8 which is ridiculously expensive and you can only get 30/year. It feels really unfair, surely it's better not to be taking up a space permanently? 110
Reposted by StephanieGeorge Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 12/10/2026🧵Spotted in Country Aotearoa New Zealand: A tiny human (2?) is holding Mum's hand as they walk to the end of a VERY LONG driveway and check their letterbox. Waving at cars as they go by. Doing a happy dance when Mum discovers that they have mail. 125033
Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026So is God calling Alan into a prison ministry? #TheArchers 150
Reposted by StephanieShirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026A bang-up job of translating my research into sharp, clear, accessible writing. Kudos to Vern Ramesar at CBC Halifax share.google/kqt8OfOxNuHv...share.googleHow the proceeds of slave labour helped build early Nova Scotia | CBC NewsIsaac Saney, a Dalhousie University professor of Black and African Diaspora Studies, wants a waterfront memorial acknowledging that Nova Scotia's early roads, universities and public institutions were... 38640
Reposted by StephanieVictorianLondon @victorianlondon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026there are bad reviews and then there is "one of Taylor's pamphlets was ordered to be burnt by the public hangman" 0133
Reposted by StephanieOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket 10097353083
Reposted by StephanieInside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Minster's ornate altar artwork that still retains its mysteries insidecroydon.com/2026/10/11/m... #Croydon #Minster #History @balhnews.bsky.socialinsidecroydon.comMinster’s ornate altar artwork that still retains its mysteriesCROYDON CHRONICLES: A search to find the history of an altar frontal used at Croydon Minster reveals a tale from Shanghai, an ARP warden in World War II, freemasonry, a men’s outfitters shop on Cro… 086
Reposted by StephanieWill Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read. 10586041344
Reposted by Stephaniedave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 10/10/2026researchers showed 1,950 people videos of cats and asked them to identify whether the cats were tense, fearful, or relaxed. while people were remarkably bad at this task, men especially struggled. this is probably not extremely surprising to anyone who has used a dating app. 3068367
Reposted by StephanieI support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026#slaveryarchive 🗃 0164
Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This is a great phrase which really sums up modern life &discourse! 010
Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Have you come across @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social? I think you'd get on &you are both owned by magnificent cats 130
Reposted by StephanieJocelyn @historygirl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I don't understand why people are so eager to give up their free will to a robot or machine. 011
Reposted by StephanieBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/10/2026Were public toilet walls the @Twitter of the 18th century? Maximillian Novak on how a little-known book of “latrinalia” offers a unique and fascinating window into Georgian life: publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/8301060... 57023
Reposted by StephanieClaire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Slightly odd request, perhaps, and it might not even make sense, but does anyone have suggestions for a poet who is a bit like Mary Oliver, but with a much more urban backdrop? Mulling over some stuff, and interested to know if there's someone out there writing like that. ✝️⚓ 1711
Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Noel Streatfeild, either in her autobiography or a novel, wrote about children who had posted so many treasures into the hole where their rocking horse's tail had been that they had to perform surgery on its tummy to get them out. I guess now he can deliver his own socks to the washing machine? 050
Reposted by StephanieSam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026RIP Chris Wickham. Unlike so many historians who emphasise particularities and contingencies, he was the master of constructing grand, coherent, beautifully rendered worlds out of his evidence. This, from his 2021 Past and Present essay, is a masterpiece of historical writing. 413957
Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It's so important, I hope the meeting goes well 010
Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The leaves taste soapy to me (a genetic thing apparently) so definitely team seed 000
Reposted by StephanieRevolutionary War 250 @revwar250.bsky.social · 09/10/20269 OCTOBER 1776, NEW YORK: For the second time, a squadron of Royal Navy warships sails up the Hudson River from New York Harbor, taking intense fire from the Continental artillery on both sides of the river and receiving no damage on their passage. 142
Reposted by StephanieR. Eerie VanBoo-kirk @sotsogm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Occasionally Wallace is heard yelling and knocking things over in the background, followed by the sounds of Gromit futilely seeking a quieter place to record. 15611
Reposted by StephanieDave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Well, there goes lifelong learning. Absolute bastardry. 37444126
Reposted by StephanieThe Georgian Lords @georgianlords.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Late summer 1785 the Surrey JPs seek to crack down on the 'enormities' perpetrated in the county, setting their sights particularly on ale houses: 'one of the greatest sources of... corruption and debauchery'. All constables are summoned to have the rules read to them so they cannot plead ignorance. 043
Reposted by StephanieProf Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026An absolute scandal this. & I’ve been a devoted listener. To cancel BBCFreeThinking & Thinking Allowed signals a dangerous abandonment of ideas & the life of the mind in a period when both are imperilled by irrationalists, conspiracists, demagogues. They will gloat www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and YoursThe corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts. 1138
Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I hope it's the latter, or they'll be spending huge sums of money making something that works worse, not that that has ever known to have happened before 000
Reposted by StephaniePaintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I'm firing up the ol' sister account again. Please do follow if of interest... 79013